Sun-Pinned Leaves are Christopher Brown from Kent (England) on vocals & Neil Faulkner from Suffolk (England) – playing all instruments. 

 

Chris and Neil first wrote songs together at school in 1975. They continued writing and performing together and separately (including 1976 punk band ‘Nuffin’ (Detour Records ‘Bored Teenagers’ Volume 9 and their self-released album Crowd Control) before pursuing separate projects in the mid-1980s. Having recently reunited Neil and Chris were keen to record their favourite self-penned 80s material plus new songs resulting in Sun-Pinned Leaves' first album ‘Theories of Destiny’ which was voted 8th best album of 2019 by Derrick Moore, Editor EATEN ALIVE zine Feb 2019  fb:  @eatenalivezine. The album was debuted live at the Lighthouse, Deal in August, 2019.

 

Second album ‘Trans-Genre Express’ was released on 3rd April 2020 and third album ‘Eclipse’ on 1st October 2020 with both receiving airplay on UK, US, Canadian, South African, Australian, Spanish and French radio. The Americana flavoured tribute to John Denver ‘Monterey Bay’ was a weekly number 1 with Banks Radio Australia, ‘Hope Train’ was a weekly number 6 with Independent Radio Network and ‘I Used to Know her Mother’ was a weekly number 16 with Zootapradio, Texas. ‘Eclipse’ was awarded 6th best album of 2020 by EATEN ALIVE @eatenalivezine). In December 2020 ‘Love Is’ was voted the Christmas Number 1 by listeners of Sittingbourne’s ‘Live & Listed,  106.9 sfm presented by Ian Henderson. Sun-Pinned Leaves were featured on the BBC Radio Kent Upload show on 20/4/21.

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Sun-Pinned Leaves 4th album the Americana ‘Rock ‘N’ Road’ released July 2021 was their
most popular to date making No 5 in the Top 30 albums for 2021 as selected by EATEN
ALIVE zine March 2022) and saw the band pass the landmark of appearing on over 200
different radio shows. The album and singles received stellar reviews on a number of online
blogs and websites including UK Country Radio.com

 

With the fifth album 'Altered States' released in the Summer of '22 the band are currently promoting their music to global radio stations and arranging local live events.